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417-unit complex to go before planning panel Monday BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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NEWS .................................. 3 Ahwatukee comes up short in the city’s $600 million bond proposal.
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evelopers of a proposed 417-unit apartment complex on 50th Street between Ray Road and Chandler Boulevard will go before the Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee next Monday for a vote in a formal city review process they hope to complete in about six weeks. Hoping to go before the city Planning Commission Jan. 5 and Phoenix City Coun-
cil Feb. 1, P8 Phoenix Foothills Holdings LLC is asking for height and density waivers to allow for multifamily residential development on a site about 1,500 feet south of 50th Street and Ray Road that is now occupied by the two-building Commerce Park. The 6 p.m. Dec. 19 VPC hearing is online only and people who want to speak can get a link to the meeting at phoenix.gov/cityclerksite/PublicMeetings/221219001.pdf. They can also get the agendas for the future Planning Commission and council meetings at phoenix.gov/cityclerksite/PublicMeetings.
The apartment project is not far from a mammoth light industrial office park called the Converge Logistics Center already under construction around 50th and E. Thistle Landing. There, Via West is seeking a zoning change to allow for a wider range of tenants and that could generate as many as 1,800 new vehicle trips a day, mostly onto Ray Road. That request had been expected to go before the VPC this month but is see
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Ahwatukee’s 2 new lawmakers ready to work BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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Desert Vista girls basketball eyes championship run.
GETOUT .......................... 34 Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie? Let these puppets tell you.
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hey had made their decision to run for the Arizona House of Representatives within a few weeks of each other in October 2021. For Patty Contreras, newly retired after working mainly as a program manager for the city Human Services and Parks and Recreations departments for 31½ years, the decision seemed a logical step in a lifetime of public service. Increasingly unhappy about the legacy she saw being left to her two daughters – and children generally – scientist and military veteran Stacey Travers decided it was time for her to try and change that narrative. And on Jan. 9 – a month after they captured a lead in the General Election that was never seriously in jeopardy – the two
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Next month, Ahwatukee residents Patty Contreras, left, and Stacey Travers will be sworn in as Arizona House of Representatives members representing Legislative District 12, which includes Ahwatukee, northern and west Chandler and part of Tempe. (Special to AFN)
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